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VOL. XXIV.

WELLESLEY, MARCH 23, 1916.

NO. 22.

COLLEGE CALENDAR.

Thursday, March 23, 7.30 P. M.. <'.. 1.. R. lecture

under the auspices of the < lerman I tepartment.
Friday, March 2^, 12.30 M., vacation lie-ins.
I"uesda\ , April 4, 1 .00 P.M., vacation ends.
Wednesday, April 5, 4.30 P.M., Room tg of the

Administration Building. Lecture by Miss

Marie Hamilton Law, '05.
Friday, April 7, 8.00 P.M.. Billings Hall. Artists'

Recital by the quartet of Ancient Instruments.
Saturday, April 8. 7.30 P.M., The Barn. Harvard

D. V. Play.
Sunday. April q, Houghton Memorial Chapel.

II.OO A M.. Reverend Galusha Anderson of

Newtonville.

7.00 P.M., Vespers. Special music.

SECOND READING BY JOHN MASEFIELD.

I In the evening of Monday, March 13, Mr. John
Masefield gave an informal talk to members of the
English Departments and other guests, in the
Tower Court drawing-room.

Before beginning his lecture on "Poetry," Mr.
Masefield thanked the students for the box of gifts
for wounded soldiers and announced that every
year so long as he lived he would offer prizes of
autographed books to the members of the Senior
class who wrote the best poem, the best short story,
or the best short study in prose. "My reason for
doing this," he said, "is to stimulate that art of
writing which has been such a pleasure to me through
so many years of my life."

During the first part of the evening Mr. Mase-
field gave his own very novel conception of the his-
tory and significance of English poetry. England
has not the "austereness of Spain which makes its
poetry so barren, the vividness of Italy which makes
its poetry passionate, or the clearness of France
which makes French art so just." But "the English
country has that friendly quality which one finds in
its poems."

The earliest English poetry, he said, is the
ballads whose chief value is that "they make little
bits of England more interesting just by mention-
ing them." Mr. Masefield recited the ballad of
the battle of Evesham, a place which had become
significant to him after he had discovered the poem.
Poetry, he added, should be not only "a gladden-
ing of every effort and a deepening of every rela-
tion, but also a hallowing of every place." Chaucer
was the first poet to have "the pre-eminently Eng-
lish qualities of tenderness, gentleness and humor."
He represents most English writers — "men whose
intellects are betrayed by their affections." After
Chaucer there was no great poetry until "new inspi-
ration arose in that enormous flowering, the Eliza-
bethan poetical drama." Of poets of this period
there were two classes, Shakespeare and the others. "
"Shakespeare," said Mr. Masefield, "has been
called the gentle, but he may more properly be
called the just. He shines upon the righteous and
unrighteous with equal interest because they're
living men." The only other writer of this period
whom Mr. Masefield quoted was John Davies,
author of one work, "a very strange and noble
poem on the soul." Then came the Reformation
which "divided every nation into two nations
which, since then, have existed side by side, speak-
ing the same tongue, but not understanding one
another." Since that time English poetry has re-
mained the property of the cultured class. Few
men have been able to bridge the c.ap- Cray wrote
the only really great poem, "The Elegy," which
appealed to men of all classes so that even now the

PRISCILLA BARROWS,
Senior Mistress of Ceremonies, Tree Day, 1916.

British soldiers repeat it in the trenches. Blake
and Wordsworth, "realized the need of simpler
poetry." But Blake never developed his full power
and Wordsworth "found tranquility too soon." Lord
Byron had a good deal of influence at this time,
for his principle was that "you should enjoy yourself
in whatever way you could, so long as you never
were in the least like George the Third." Of all
these poets, then, none bridged the gulf so that he
was honored by the common people "as the shep-
herds of Thessaly honored Theocritus of old."

"In more modern times," said Mr. Masefield,
"a new class of readers has sprung up, the educated
middle class — and with it a new kind of poet, the
poet of the middle class — and other poets of re-
volt from it." Tennyson is an example of the mid-
dle-class poet. Browning and Swinburne are
poets of revolt. Mr. Masefield said that, although
they were too near to judge, it was likely that they
' ' would not hold the universal heart as Chaucer
did," but simply remain "the great monuments of
an educated, refined society." Of living poets Mr.
Masefield did not speak, nor did he discuss the work
of Rupert Brooke. He said that Rupert Brooke,
if he had lived, "would probably have entered pub-
lic life and given up literature except as an amuse-
ment." As he knew him, Mr. Masefield said, that
he could not imagine him as doing "an ungracious,
an ungraceful, an untender, or an unwise thing."

After a short intermission Mr. Masefield read
some of his own poems — several short ones and a
scene from "The Tragedy of Nan." Interspersed
with the poems were several stories in which the
prevailing and favorite character was "a sea-faring
man by the name of Bill." At the very end he read
the closing lines of Good Friday and the exquisite-
ly lyrical epilogue of "The Everlasting Mercy."

W., 1918.

INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE.

At WeiXelley.

The Wellesley affirmative team was defeated
by Vassar in Billings Hall, Saturday evening,
March 18. The question — Resolved: that the
Federal government should own and operate the
railroads of the United States — was opened by
Ruth Rand, whose first point of attack was that
the present system, regulated or unregulated, fails

xiin, its benefits are merely incidental. The -. .
ond poim ol ,11, 1. v.. 1, 1 wo-fold. Regulated pr." ati
monopolj I. liK to serve the public- need, for it for-
bids consolidation. The Interstate Commerce
Commission can take no other stand, however,
because of tin- danger of allowing so great powei

to rest in private hands; and tin: case of the New
Haven road was quoted. In lie- set ond place, regu-
lated private monopoly forbids competition; but-
secret competition does exist.

The- second affirmative speaker, Charlotte Pen-
field, showed that the government can safely un-
dertake the ownership of the railroads. Two things
are necessary in any management — an efficient
system anil efficient men. The government has
shown efficiency of system in the Parcel Post and
the Panama Canal, and in the management of the
Panama railroads; and that it is able to secure ef-
ficient men was shown in the examples of Colonel
Goethals and Thomas Edison. From the stand-
point of finance we find that, since the present in-
terest rate on debt is higher than the government
rate, there would be a resultant saving. This would
provide capital for the future. Consolidation, too,
would be more economical.

Edith Jones then brought out the need of prompt,
convenient service. Service has three factors: the
aim of the management giving the service, its
financial capability and the effectiveness of the
organization through which service is rendered.
The aim of private corporations— getting business
at a rate that will pay — contrasts sharply with the
aim of the government as shown in its free schools
and libraries, its postal services, and public highways.
That the government is financially capable was
shown in the preceding speech; and the effective-
ness of government organization was summed up
in a few important points— it would offer co-or-
dinated railroads and waterways and through pas-
senger and freight traffic; the government could
build into sections where the railroad would be a
boon, but where no promise of immediate return
justifies private construction; there would be har-
mony between the makers of the laws and those
administering the system; and it would insure rapid
execution of provisions for safety and convenience.
The negative side upheld. by Vassar made no
strong attack on the main argument of the affirm-
ative, but did some telling refutation. The first
speaker, Anabel McEldowney, brought out that
under the proposed change the spoil system would
exist and that with each change of administration
would come a disastrous change of policy.

Helen Evarts continued by showing how more
efficient men can be had under private ownership
since it pays larger salaries. Then, too, the ap-
pointment system does not secure the best men.
The government, moreover, judges efficiency
through the Civil Service, but Civil Service
tests only knowledge and not ability.

The concluding speaker, Mary Guy, pointed
out that the government has been unable to manage
smaller corporations without inefficiency and cor-
ruption, that political pull would exist, and that
government ownership has not proved profitable
in foreign countries.

Excellent rebuttals were given by all speakers,
but everyine agreed that Edith Jones' concluding
refutation was a masterpiece. Her summary of
both sides of the debate was especially admirable.
The teams: Speakers, affirmative— Ruth Rand,
'16, Charlotte Penfield, '18, Edith Jones, '16. Neg-
ative—Anabel McEldowney, Helen Evarts, Mary
Guy. Alternates: Affirmative. Mildred Jones,
'17. Ruth Aultman, '18, Emma Barrett, '17. Xeg-

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THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

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A NEW YEAR.

With this issue the News enters upon a new year '
and the new board of editors begins its work. As
is the case with new boards in general, we are full
of enthusiasm and are building splendid air castles
that need only your help to make them real and solid
facts. We look to you confidently for co-operation
and support. The management of News during
the year just past was such as to set a very high
standard for us and we feel ourselves in much the
same position as Alice in the Looking Glass country
where, as the Red Queen remarked: "It takes all
the running you can do to keep in the same place ! ' '
We are ready to run at top speed — and perhaps,
with your help, we shall be able to gain a little
ground, for it must be admitted that there is still
room for improvement in our College paper and
that, fine as it is, the News is still far from perfect.
We believe that a college paper should fulfil
three functions: That it should be first, an inform-
ing paper containing concise accounts of college
happenings: second, a paper of opinion in which
the college public shall find opportunity to express
their ideas concerning college questions; third, a
paper which shall in some manner bind together
the different parts of the college: The students,
the faculty, the trustees, the .alumna?. We shall
not dwell here on the first two aspects of News
work, since it is an almost self-evident fact that a
newspaper which does not give the news and which
does not attempt, at least, to mould public opinion,
does not justify its existence. We shall say just a
word further in regard to the News as relating the
various groups of people which make up the Col-
lege, in the largest sense of the word.

There are matters of college legislation over
which the student body lias control directly through
the Student Government Association. Besides
these there are other questions, no less important
and no less vitally concerning us which lie quite
outside our jurisdiction. As an influence toward the
making of satisfactory regulations within the scope
of our powers, the News may be a great factor, but
it is not entirely indispensable, as the College is not
so large that the trend of public opinion cannot be
influenced in other ways. When it comes to those
matters which are controlled by the faculty, the
alumme, or the trustees, however, it seems to us
that the News forms the one logical and effective
means of presenting the students' point of view.

The College authorities have withheld from the
students certain departments of College legislation
and they have rightly done so. This does not
mean, however, that they withhold as well the right
to have opinions on these subjects. The larger
questions of College policy must be decided by those
who have reached a maturity of judgment far ex-
ceeding that of the student body, but the opinions
of the students are nevertheless of the utmost im-
portance. The College paper offers' a way through
which these opinions may be set forth, and we would
urge a fuller use of this opportunity. Let us have
Free Presses on Sunday Rules and similar questions
by all means, but let us have as well articles that
tackle boldly those other questions which we can
control only indirectly — from the consideration of

the rule against dancing with men in Wellesley to
the discussion of College architecture and College
curriculum.

Dr. Levine has conducted private classes in ad-
vanced economics and has lectured in the Exten-
sion Teaching Department of Columbia Univer-
sity on the history of "Social Reform in the United
States."

From August, 1912, to February, 1916, Dr. Levine
was statistician for the New York State Depart-
ment of Labor, preparing among other studies one
on the " Immigrant Population of New York State."
He resigned a position with the Public Service
Commission of New York State in order to come
to Wellesley. As he has also worked with the
United States Census Bureau he has had quite a
variety of administrative experience.

His earlier education was received first in the
New York public schools, later in Russia, Switzer-
land, France and at Columbia University.

FREE PRESS.

Stop and Think.
Springtime is coming with its charming fashions.
Les chapeaux au printemps and the new origina-
tions in foot wear designed especially for the jeune
fille have a new vivacite, we are told. But, I beg
you, jeune fille, before you chase these new crea-
tions, stop and think.

Did you read "A Letter From Brittany" in the
last College News? It was another plea for help
from abroad. This time for the support of the many
cheerless, struggling hospitals filled with wounded
and suffering soldiers, that need so desperately
everything that might help them, pillows, socks
and especially money for surgical apparatus. It
is only one more plea, we say; we cannot help them
all. No, we cannot help them all, but are we help-
ing some? Are we becoming hardened to this suf-
fering because it is so great and because it has
lasted so long? Dr. Johnston Ross claimed that the
greatest danger which threatened America to-daj'
was just this, that we might become insensitive
and selfish by becoming hardened to this suffering.
There are so many pleas that surely if one does not
strike some responsive chord in us another should.

So I ask, jeune fille, isn't this a good suggestion?
Instead of giving some of father's money for these
causes, give some of your own by wearing more of
last season's clothes than you would otherwise.
They are still whole and pretty. Send that money
that would go for these new creations where it
can do such wonders, where it even might save lives.

The war relief agent in your district will see that
any gifts are promptly sent. M. P. B., '16.

DR. LEVINE.

Dr. Louis Levine has taken charge of Professor
Balch's classes for the remainder of the academic
year, Miss Balch having been given a special leave
of absence.

Dr. Levine received the Columbia Ph.D. in 1912.
His doctor's thesis, a study of French syndicalism,
attracted a quite unusual amount of interest and
was published by- Longmans, Green & Company,
in 1914 as "The Labor Movement in France."
He has also been a contributor to the North Amer-
ican Review, the Forum, the Political Science
Quarterly, the Economic Review, the Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science,
and others.

DEGREES CONFERRED IN MARCH.

At the March meeting of the Board of Trustees
the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon
Edith Abbie Ayres, 1914, for work in Philosophy and
English, also Olga Spencer Halsey, 1912, in Eco-
nomics and Sociology. Copies of the theses presented
are now in the possession of the College Library.
Miss Ayres' thesis is on "Schopenhauer's JEs-
thetics as Related to his Metaphysics." Miss
Halsey 's thesis, dedicated to Professor Coman, is
on "Health Insurance in Great Britain." Owing
to the changes in conditions that will follow the
war, Miss Halsey's study of the early working of
the present method of Health Insurance in Great
Britain is likely to be of especial value.

SENIOR PLAY.

The Class of 1916 announces as its Senior Play,
"Master Skylark or Will Shakespeare's Ward,"
a dramatization from the story of the same name
by John Bennett, by Edgar White Burrill.

(Signed) Natalie H. McCloskey,

Chairman of Senior Play.

BELGIAN ARCHITECTURE.

On Tuesday evening, March 14, a distinguished
guest, Professor Victor Horta, Dean of the Faculty
of the University of Brussels, spoke in French, at
Billings Hall, on "The Belgian Civilization and
Architecture."

M. Horta brought out, in his lecture, the influ-
ences of foreign countries, Spain and Austria,
especially, and the bearing of the geography of
Belgium upon its architecture. In Flanders, where
the country is flat and monotonous, towered build-
ings form truly artistic contrasts to the landscape.
In Wallons, to the south, on the other hand, the
hills require a different type of building. Here
horizontal lines, though combined with vertical,
predominate.

Each city has its characteristically developed
architecture — Bruges, its picturesque buildings rer
fleeted, so as to make a double city, in the canals
which pass through; Brussels, its high belfries and
towers standing out in greater dignity and splendor.
Various materials, stone, marble, arid brick are
employed according to the section of the country,
but more than anything, the Belgians love color
in their architecture. Often very beautiful con-
trasts are secured by the combination of stone and
brick. With decided national spirit in Belgian
architecture, is mingled characteristic sectional
development.

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THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

THE COLLEGE HALL CELEBRATION
MARCH 17.

From the minute when the curtains in the Barn
were drawn aside to reveal the link- model "i < "I
lege Hall, till the end of the- musical cheer, the much-
talked-of "new \Ycllcslc\ ■" w.is furgollcn. Mto

Pendleton presided over the celebration and in-
troduced the speakers. First, Miss Whiting told
u- aboul the fetes in the earlj <i.i\ > of the College,

when the President "threw the day forward" to
allow time for festivities. How we wished that we
might have met Mr. Longfellow, or the famous
Boston scientists who brought the first microscopes
to Uclleslcy: or have been among Mr. Durant's
"calico girls" when the first scholarships were given
al the Student Aid Fete. How we longed to see
(Jueeii (apulassi with her Sandwich Island retinue;
or the Pueblo Indians who did a war-dance in
center; or the Hindu who read Sanskrit poems in
the old chapel. Since that is impossible, the next
best thing is to read of these and many other gala
days in Professor Horsford's collection of College
Festivals. This is in the library and is recommended
as most interesting reading.

"Beauty," Mr. Durant used to say, "is an
essential to education," and those of us who went
on Dr. Roberts' personally conducted tour through
College Hall, saw that the founder gave beauty to
his girls, however poor the College might be. With
good slides and vivid descriptions of every well-
loved nook and corner, Miss Roberts made many of
us more homesick than we have ever before been in
Wellesley. Pictures of the fire, the ruins, the be-
ginning of reconstruction were also shown, and at
the end, three pictures of College Hall rising above
the trees across the lake. And we came away feel-
ing that if, as Miss Whiting said, Wellesley is a
state of mind, we were glad that such a building
once embodied that state.

DON JUAN.

On Monday evening, March 13, a Spanish lec-
ture was given by Mr. Louis Baralt of Harvard, at
Zeta Alpha House. Mr. Baralt spoke in a manner
most entertaining and enlightening about "Don
Juan." He showed how the Spanish author, Tirso
de Molina, brought forth, from an old Spanish
chronicle, this well-known character into more
modern literature. Mr. Baralt characterized the
English, French and German Don Juans, showing
wherein they differ, and making evident at the
same time that the Don Juans of Byron, of Moliere,
of Mozart and of other authors, all owe their origin
to Spanish literature.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESEARCH STUDENT-
SHIPS FOR 1916-1917.

The Department of Social Investigation of the
Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy offers
for the year 1916-1917 a limited number of re-
search studentships, the value of which will be
$275.00 and tuition.

Students in this department are required to carry
the lecture courses required of candidates for a
certificate (see Announcements for 1915-1916).
The seminar in Methods of Social Investigation
conducted by the directors of the department will
also be required. The major part of the field work
of students in this department will be done in con-
nection with the inquiry that is being carried on
by the department, such as the Juvenile Court in-
vestigation or the recent inquiry into tenement
bouse conditions in Chicago.

Applicants for research studentships must be
graduates of colleges or universities of good stand-
ing; students who have had training in political
economy and who have maintained a high scholar-
ship record will be preferred. Application should
be made not later than May 1st. Application
blanks and a bulletin giving further information
about the work of the school will be furnished by
rhe Registrar upon request.

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INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE.

ative, Emma Downer, - Helen Brightbill, Isabel
Mann.

The judges; Professor John C. Dunning of Brown
University, Professor W. M. Hudson of Clark Col-
lege, and Mr. Arthur Stone of Boston. .

Debate at Mount Holyoke.

The debate at Mount Holyoke was held in the
auditorium of the new Student Alumna; Hall re-
cently opened. In the absence of President Woolley,
Dean Purington acted as presiding officer. Mount
Holyoke with the affirmative side of the question,
opened the debate. The first speaker pointed
out the tendency toward government ownership
in the United States as well as throughout the world.
That such ownership is needed is evident by the
failure of the present regulatory system to correct
the evils resulting from mismanagement, such as
discrimination and over-capitalization and the cor-
rupting influence of the railroads on politics. The
people in the United States deserve lower rates
and better service than they receive under the pres-
ent private management. Government ownership
would eliminate the wastes now resulting from com-
petition, and be able to reduce rates and improve
service, as has been done so successfully under state
management in foreign countries. In conclusion,
the affirmative aimed to prove the possibility of
successful management of the railroads in the United
States. Our government has already demonstrated
its business capability in the building of the Panama
Canal, in the Post-office system and especially in
the management of the Panama Railroad. The
strategic advantage of owning the railroads in time
of war for defense, closed the atffirmative case.

The negative side admitted that the present
regulatory system was not perfect, but it had been
able to improve the railroad management to some

extent and was sure of greater success in the future.
Overcapitalization was no longer prevalent, while
under the Interstate Commerce Commission un-
fair discrimination was rapidly being eliminated,
and reasonable rates were assured to the public.
Wnder government ownership, the attempt to fix
impartial rates would tend toward a rigidity which
would hinder the greatest economic development
of the country. Furthermore, under our present
system of government, the management of the rail-
roads would be impossible because of the inherent
nature of the government, its inefficient manage-
ment, and the inefficieny of governmental officials.
The railroads would be an added question that would
lead to increased partisan sectionalism. There-
was really no necessity for the government to
undertake this tremendous enterprise, since rates
were, on the whole, lower than in state-owned
railroads, and our service very superior in most
respects.

The rebuttals on both sides were good, and the
debate as a whole was verv evenly divided, as the
close decision of the judges, two to one in favor of
the affirmative, indicated. The spirit shown by
both the winners and losers was equally admirable.

Victory or no victory, we have reason to be
proud of our team — both of those who have already
shown their powers of debating and of Helen Merrill
wrho, as a Freshman, was new at the work and to
whom we shall look for fine leadership in inter-
collegiate debates to come.

The speakers were as follows: Mt. Holyoke,
Alice T. Crathern, Rebecca Walton, Margaret
Davis; alternates, Ester Lind, Ruth Buddington,
Elizabeth Offut; Wellesley, Amy Rothchild, Helen
Merrill, Sarah Snell; alternates, Marjorie Turner,
Emily Allyn, Marion Basset.

The judges were: Carlos B. Ellis, Principal of the
Springfield High School of Commerce. Esther
Lowenthal of Smith College, and Henry G Pearson
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS

OUR SHAKESPEARE GARDEN.

The permanent and therefore the most notable
feature of Wellesley's observance of the Shake-
speare Tercentenary is to be a Shakespeare Gar-
den. There are other features. Such learned
listeners as the members of the Shakespeare So-
ciety and of the Shakespeare class have already
heard Miss Charlotte Porter present her heretical,
most interesting views of the Shakespeare stage.
This same intelligent audience, augmented, per-
haps, by faculty bookworms, librarians and any
other discriminating spirits who dare to venture,
expects to hear, on Thursday evening, April 27,
Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett, a bibliographer of dis-
tinction, on "Shakespeare Quartos and Other
Rarities." Professor Macdougall has arranged,
for Friday evening, April 7, a concert involving
Tudor and Stuart instruments of music, and also
for two afternoon recitals of Shakespeare songs by
Miss Wheeler. Saturday evening, April 22, Pro- •
fessor Louis C. Elson, chief authority on Shake-
speare's musical knowledge, is to give us his de-
lightful lecture, " Shakespeare in Music," illustrated
by singing and playing. We are hoping that the
Harvard Delta Upsilon actors will crown our April
celebration by a Barn performance, Saturday eve-
ning, April 8, of their beautiful revival of "Henry
IV, Part II." Some of our May Shakespeareana
tend to animation rather than scholarly dignity.
Our annual Mayday frolic is to take the form of a
Shakespeare festival and we shall have a novel
opportunity on Friday evening, May 12, to see,
for a dime admittance, a somewhat mythical
"Life of Shakespeare" in moving pictures. The
use of this film has been granted to the College by
Mr. Gustav Frohman, who will come out with it
and be glad to answer any questions that may be
asked him concerning Shakespeare productions
and actors for the past fifty years. On the after-
noon of this same day, the English Literature De-
partment will welcome back Professor Louise
Manning Hodgkins, an enthusiastic promoter of
Shakespeare study in the early years of Wellesley,
who will give a Shakespeare address and help us
dedicate the Shakespeare Garden. Our June cele-
bration lies with the Shakespeare Society, who
have never failed their poet yet. But even a moon-
light performance of a Shakespeare play can be
immortal only in memory, whereas the Shake-
speare Garden should go on blossoming and fading
and blossoming again for another three hundred
years, — provided that Shakespeare's friends will
freshen it with little showers of gold.

The power house, with its subterranean tentacles
of hot pipes, rendered it impracticable to plant
the garden, as everybody wished, by the Anne
Hathaway cottage. So it was finally decided,
after much discussion and after consultation with
all the Powers that Be, from Mr. Watt to Mr. Day,
to locate it east of the President's House, where
the slope toward the Barn forms a sunny, open
triangle between the driveway and the brick walk.
Here, enclosed by hedges, with steps leading down
to it from the President's east door, laid out in
Elizabethan walks and beds, with a rustic seat
and with a seventeenth-century sundial from
Stratford, presented by that ever-generous giver,
Helen J. Sanborn, '84, we trust it will be a delight
forever. Here will blossom, in due season,

"An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds,"
from

"daffodils

That comes before the swallow dares and take

The winds of March with beauty,"

to

"daisies pied and violets blue
And ladiesmocks all silver white,
And cuckoo-buds of golden hue."

The garden is in the immediate charge of the in-
structor in horticulture, Miss Helen I. Davis, who
promises us in coming years, if not altogether in
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"soft myrtle," "honeysuckle ripen'd by the sun,"
"love-in-idleness," "snowy marjoram,"

"The crown imperial, lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one,"
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purples," and, so far as they can make friends with
our ruder climate, all the flowers that Shakespeare
knew and loved and planted in the ever-fragrant
garden of his poetry.

Some of these are hard to come by. Please note
the list, so carefully prepared by Miss Davis, printed
in the next issue of the College News, with its
request for contributions from private botanists.
Some of our alumnaj, — Katharine Stanley Hall,
1909, for instance, — are ready to respond by the
apronful. We cannot all bring samphire from the
Dover cliffs, but we can all help with money. The
cost of the initial grading, buying and planting is
put at $700, of which more than half has already
been given — and spent.. Shakespeare needs the
rest at once, if he is to have his garden in trim for
a May dedication. The cost of maintenance, it is
estimated, will be from $200 to $300 a year. Shall
this be raised by annual appeals or secured by sub-
scriptions of stated sums per year? The best way
of all would be the establishment of a Shakespeare
Garden Endowment Fund of $5,000. Why not?
Checks should be made out to Miss Pendleton and
sent to Miss Tufts. They will be acknowledged
through the College News from time to time.
No matter though your own check must be small.
Your gift to the Poet will none the less bloom
brightly in his garden, — "pansies, that's for
thoughts."

Katharine Lee Bates.
' For the Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee.

vision and call of Jeanne d'Arc. Among the shorter
poems which followed were, ' ' Mammon, the Alms-
giver," and several others on social subjects, "The
Festival" on eternity, "Obad," a song of the dark
hour before the dawn, and "The Grail." Of es-
pecial interest, because of their intimate associa-
tion with college life, were "A Pleasure Tithe,"
written to raise money for Dennison House, and
"An Arthrop-Ode, " written upon the dissection
of a lobster when Miss Converse was herself a
Wellesley student.

THE DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE.

READING BY MISS CONVERSE.

On Thursday afternoon, March 1 6, Miss Flor-
ence Converse gave a reading from her own poems,
the program being the third of a series by present
day poets arranged by Miss Bates for Literature
1 6 and other interested members of the College
community. Miss Converse opened her program
with a masque, "The Voices," which describes the

Appointments from the Class of 1914.

Emma Murphy — From Central High School,
Springfield, Mass. to Y. W. C. A., German-
town, Pa.

Ethel L. Williams — To Berkeley Institute, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.

Appointments from the Class of 1915.
Marion R. Lyon — -University of Iowa.

Appointments from the Class of 1916.

Yola S. Allen— To Emma Willard School, Troy

N. Y.
Marian C. Berry — To Drexel Institute, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Harriet W. Bullard — To Commercial High School,

Springfield, Mass.
Ruth C. Duffey — To Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,

N. Y.
Emily W. Elmore, B.A., University of Wisconsin,

1910 — To The Roycemore School, Evanston, 111.
Louise A. Howe, B.A., Smith College, 1914 — To

Walnut Hill School, Natick, Mass.
Lois N. Kendall, B.A., Wellesley College, 1913

— To Emma Willard School, Troy, N. Y.
Mary R. McKee, B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1910

— To University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Edna L. Roof, B.L., Pomona College, 1908 — To

University of California, Berkeley, Cat.
Louise G. Russell, B.A., Wellesley College, 1914 —

To Hampton Normal Institute, Hampton, Va.

THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

PARLIAMENT OF FOOLS.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF INEVITABLE
THOUGHTS.

( )\ Spring.

I knew — or thought I knew — a time

When modest violets blow,
Hul l his year spring forget to plant.

Snow-balls are all that grow.

"In the spring a young man's fancy — "
He is! Well, I should sa\ — !
And maiden minds on millinery
Absorbed, intently stay.

"The tiowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la,
Have everything to do with the case —
For a purple rose may add "ton" to a hat
When it would never do in a vase.

"Folk long to gone on pilgrimages"
To hear the wild waves beat.
They spend vacation poetizing
And drying of their feet.

Rockport and Marblehead increase

To twice their population
When Wellesley College takes a rest

And grants a spring vacation.

This year the shore will not be quite

As warm as toast and tea;
But there'll be coasting on the rocks

And skating on the sea.

"So never mind the weather, love,"
And when vacation's sped
Come back a-warbling this refrain!
"The sprig has cub agaid!"

On Tree Day Mistresses.

Have you seen the Tree Day mistress

As she trips along?
Hope she will not hurt herself,

Or stumble on our song.

Tree Day mistresses are lovely,

"Pomp and circumstance"
In their "trailing clouds of glory"

Awesomely advance.

Never cut your gym or call-out,

Always mind your dress —
And perhaps when you're a Senior,

You'll be chosen for mistress.

On Politics.

As soon as we come back again
From our brief spring vacation

We start to revolutionize —
And change the administration.

On every Thursday afternoon

With zeal delectable
We re-elect every officer

In any way electable.

Student Government and class,
C. A., A. A., Debating—

( Ifficers of every sort

Finished while you're waiting.

And then to Center off we rush
And cheer and cheer and cheer,

As tho' we had already reached
The beginning of next year.

STUDENT RECITAL.

Tuesday, March 14, 1916, at 4.30 P.M.
Program.

Piano: Tendre Aveu Schutt

Miss Gertrude C. Boyd, 1918.

Nocturne, Op. 27. No. 1 Chopin

Miss Charlotte B. Abbott, 1919.
Voice: At Parting (

The Star / RoSers

Miss Marguerite R. Richardson, 1919.

Piano: Nocturne Paderewski

Miss Fay Emerson, 1919.

Violin: Mayur Borowski

Miss Gladys L. Woodward, 1916.

Piano: Nocturne, Op. 55. No. 1 Chopin

Miss Jane E. McCartney, 1919.

Erotikon, Op. 10. No. 1 Sjorgren

Miss Marguerite Ammann, 1916.

MAGAZINE AND NEWS ELECTIONS.

Magazine Board: Grace Ballard, '17, Editor.

Dorothy Roberts, '17.

Laura Holland, '17.

Sally Calkins Wood, '18.

Helen Mitchell, '18.

Marguerite Atterbury, '18.
News Board: Helen McMillin, '17, Editor.

Marjorie Turner, '17, Asst Editor.

Rachel Brown, '17.

Barbara French, '17.

Dorothy Greene, '18.

Katherine Donovan, '18.

Louise Stockbridge, '18.

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SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE.

Dr. G. A. Johnston Ross of Union Theological
Seminary preached the Sunday morning sermon,
March 19, in Houghton Memorial Chapel. His
text was "Ye Ought Always to Pray." There
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the other spiritual. It is a fallacy to suppose
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outpouring of the soul. A second reason why
people dislike to pray is that the mechanistic con-
ception of the universe, though an outworn theory
still influences thought. Another reason people
give for failure to pray is a skeptical questioning.
This questioning is based on a wrong, a too nar-
row conception of prayer.

A last and subtle reason for the distastefulness
of prayer is that it leads to self-discovery, and that
is always less pleasant than self-pity. But the real
reason for prayer, even if we doubt its active ef-
ficacy, even though we dislike its revelation, is that
Jesus prayed.

CHAPEL VESPERS.

Service Prelude.

Processional: "The Shadows of the Evening

Hour," Crawford

Invocation.

Hymn.

Service Anthem : "How Lovely are Thy Dwell-
ings Fair," George Coleman Gow

Psalm.

Gloria Patri.

Scripture Lesson.

Prayer.

Violoncello: Reverie, Dunkler

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Choir: "The Crucifix," Faure

Prayers (with choral responses).

Recessional: "Praise, My Soul, The King of

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CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

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is difficult for this generation to grasp as a reality.
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the exceptional case in the natural or social world
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ALUMNA DEPARTMENT.

HENRIETTA ST. BARBE BROOKS.

The mam friends of Henrietta St. Barbe Brooks
ol '91 will learn from another column thai her long
struggle with ill health lias closed in death. Miss
Brooks was able to be in the library but little dur-
ing tlu- year [914-15, but she believed thai the
summer, which she hoped to pass in her house in
Pemaquid Point, Maine, would 'I" much for her.
It became evident, however, thai she could nol
meet her routine duties, and leave of absence was
granted her for the present year. She has remained
in her Wellesley home, occupied constantly in read-
ing and happy in the visits of numerous friends,
apparently free from any haunt inn though! that
the disease upon her was mortal in its character.
The end came suddenly and painlessly.

Miss Brooks has been an efficient and large-
minded librarian, and it is sad to think thai the
addition to the library for which she had made
plans to the uttermost-detail, must be opened with-
out her.

ENGAGEMENTS.

14. Ann Abbott to Rush A. Brown, Chicago,

11)10.

'14. Marguerite Mallett to Henry James Ray-
mond, Princeton, 1905, of Germantown, Pa.

BIRTHS.

"l2. On Mareh I, 1916, at Framingham, Mass.,
a son, Horaee J., to Mrs. Harold B. Hayden (Alice
C. Forbes).

DEATHS.

On Mareh 9. Adelaide Wells Cross, 18S1.

On March 16, at Wellesley, Henrietta St. Barbe
Brooks, 1891, Librarian of Wellesley College.

On March 6, suddenly, at the Boothby Hospital,
Boston, Claire Sampson Bowditch, 1906.

On February 29, Abbie J. Wheeler, mother of
Helen Wheeler, 1913.

In Louisxille, Ky., on March 15, Mrs. Laban
Phelps, mother of Mrs. Eli 0. Jackson (Aph Phelps,
1909I.

In Bloomington, 111., on March 5, Mrs. James A.
Wilcox, mother of Mrs. Ernest M. Steele (Leala
M. Wilcox. 1909). of Coshocton, Ohio.

At Buffalo, X. V., December 30, 1915, Mrs.
Helen Bussey Plympton, mother of Bessie Plymp-
ton (Mrs. Ausburn Dwelle), '87-'90, and widow
of Professor George W. Plympton of Brooklyn,
X. Y. Professor Plympton died in 1907.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS.

Madame H. J. Bonnerot (formerly Mile. Forest,
Instructor in French, 1910-13) to Rue de Cluny 3,
Paris V, France.

'04. Mrs. George A. Xeeld (Agnes Scudder,
formerly of 19041 to 3904 Forbes St., Pittsburgh,
Pa.

'08. Mrs. Herbert M. Uline (Marion Barnes.
1908), to 3133 Fremont Axe. So., Minneapolis,
Minn.

'13. Irene F. McCarty to 1 Webster St., Natick,
Mass.

'13. Mrs. Kenneth Todd Noting I Marion Hunt)
to 47 Poplar Plains Rd., Toronto, Ontario.

FACULTY NOTES.

Miss Whiting and Miss Tufts entertained the
Graduate Club at the Observatory, Monday eve-
ning, March 20. At 8.15 Miss Whiting spoke for
a short time on the "Seals and Gems of the Lady
Huggins bequest." She showed how the whole
history" of gems is illustrated in this collection:
Assyrian cylinders, Egyptian scarabs, Sassanian
conoidal seals, classic intaglios and cameos. She
also spoke of one of the Arundel prints from a curi-
ous picture of the fourteenth century. Refresh-
ments were then served.

Miss Margaret Cook of the Department of Zool-

ogy, has given up her work lor the resl of t lit- year,

ami is living at home, on account of die illncs> ol
hei mol Ih'i

NEWS NOTES.

'85. Mar) Wiggin, who is doing expert work

for the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, is to be

the speaker at the meeting, on March 25, at which
tin- Welleslej Club of Madison entertains the
Madison Chapter of the Association of Collegiate
Alumna}. Mr. Watrous, Chief of the Wisconsin
Commission, pays the high tribute to Miss Wiggin
ot announcing the reorganization in accordance
with her recommendations, of those departments
in which she has been working.

'91. Mary Emogcnc Hazeltine is in charge of
the Library School of the University of Wisconsin,
a department under the Wisconsin Free Library
Commission. An article by her on "Opportunities
for College Women in Library Work" is one of the
series of articles entitled "The New World and the
College Woman," appearing in the "Bookman."

'04. Agnes Scudder Neeld, formerly of 1904,
is living in Pittsburgh, where her husband, George
Avery Xeeld is pastor of one of the chief Metho-
dist churches.

'08. Evelyn M. Walmsley is studying this year
at the Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford, Conn.
She has been appointed to the Kiang-an Mission,
China, by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions.

'it. Elizabeth P. Longaker is teaching Latin
and German in the West Philadelphia High School
for Girls.

'12. Dorothy Applegate has been visiting at
Wellesley, and assisting Miss Jenkins temporarily
in the office of the Alumna? Secretary.

'12. Christine Chapman Robbins has removed
from Ithaca, X. Y., to Auburn, Ala. Dr. Robbins
has recently been appointed Professor of Botany
and Physiological Research of the Alabama Poly-
technic Institute at Auburn.

'14. Dorothy S. Emmons has been made an
active member of the Boston Art League and is
showing some pen and ink illustrations at the League
galleries, 282 Boylston St.

'14. Alice G. Mulligan is assistant secretary of
the Associated Charities in Stamford, Conn.

'14. Mildred Kahn is taking some courses in
art at Columbia this semester, and living at Whit-
tier Hall.

'14. At the wedding of Margery Story to
Fletcher Low on February 19, Lillian G. Mac-
donald acted as bridesmaid.

'14. Linda Macdonald is teaching in Xorth
Brook-field, Mass.

'14. Vina Smith is engaged in editorial work
with the Woman's Journal, Boston.

'14. Evelyn Jamieson is staying in Honolulu
until May I.

'14. At the wedding of Sophie Tillinghast to
William C. Crolitts, Elizabeth Hart, 1912, Helen
White, 1912, Margaret Pitkin, 1914, Elma Dilman,
1915, and Virginia Viall of 1916 were bridesmaids.

'15. Dorothy Wright is in the Public Health
Service, Washington, 1). C, as laboratory aid in
the Division of Medical Zoology.

'15. Beatrice E. Phinney is teaching mathe-
matics, community civics and general science in
the High School at Carver, Mass.

'15. Margaret Harris is teaching biology in the
Amherst, Mass., High School.

'15. Rachel Davis is one of the visitors of the
Associated Charities of Erie, Pa. Her position is an
outgrowth of volunteer service at the time of the
flood, last summer.

NEW BUILDINGS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN.

The new dormitory for women at the University
of Michigan is interesting to all of us at Wellesley

as a type of dormitory construction. It was the
gill of an alumnus of i In- university, now resident
in New York, in memory of his mother, and is
called Martha Cooke Hall. It cosl a hall million
dollars, and was furnished throughoul bj the donor:
it accommodates one hundred and twenty students.
(in each floor is a sitting-room with a fireplao
ami armchairs, and a kitchenette adjacent. This
sitting-room was designed for the use ol the or
cupants of the Hour for general sociability, espe

dally since the great living room down-stairs is,
in a co-educational university, vers much in use
b) students who are receiving men callers. These
up-stairs sitting-rooms may be signed up for by

committees as places of meetings. (In s [ay,

breakfast is left in the kitchenettes, rolls, milk,
fruit, coffee,— to which the students on the Moor
go for their food, at any hour during the morning.

The house is arranged almost exclusivel) for
single rooms, but there is a novel feature of con
struction in that the rooms are arranged in suites
of two, or, at the end of the corridors, in suites of
three. From the corridors the door opens into an
entry or vestibule, and from this entrj open the
two doors of the two bedrooms, so that ever) bed-
room has two doors between it and the corridor.
This insures almost perfect quiet, since noise from
the corridor will hardly come through two doors.
The end of the little vestibule has a wash-bowl with
hot and cold water, screened off by a heavy portiere.
Besides having hot and cold water in each suiti
for two students, there are the most ample bath-
room and shower facilities, as in Tower Court.
The space between the corridor and the bedrooms.
not occupied by the entry, forms the closets for
each room. The rooms are furnished with the
usual equipment except that there is a tall, movable
door electric lamp, an armchair with springs and
a tapestry cover, and a straight chair covered with
tapestry. The living-room, two stories in height
with long windows from lloor almost to ceiling, has
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a pitched ceiling roof, small tables, high-backed
oak chairs with cane seat and cane back. The din-
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lege in its noble proportions. It has long windows
opening out into a beautiful cloister, like the cloister
on one side of the Convent of Certosa, near Flor-
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filled in with light blue, and beyond the cloister is
a garden, at present banked solidly with snow.
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opened to students this year, is likely to be occu-
pied chiefly by freshmen and sophomores, since
the older students often prefer to lie in the houses
of their sororities. The rooms are rented at a uni-
form price of one hundred dollars a vear, and table
board is four dollars a week, in conformit) with the
scale of prices in man) Middle-Wesl communities.
The dormitory is a very beautifully and lavishly
appointed home for students, combining comfort
with stateliness and dignity. The architects are a
Xew York firm who have designed dormitories
for Vassar.

But the new auditorium is the most interesting
building to visitors from Wellesley. It holds fixe
thousand people, has thirty -one exits, most of those
on the ground floor, opening directly out-of-doors.
On ordinary occasions the entire audience will
leave the hall, when filled to its utmost capacity,
in four minutes. It is semicircular in shape, with
a rising floor and txvo balconies. The second bal-
cony, holding eighteen hundred, accommodates the

THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

Freshmen class! It has an immensely deep stage,
endless dressing rooms on different floor levels, off
the stage, and a great spacious foyer, as in the opera
houses abroad. The marvelous thing about the
building is its acoustic properties. The slightest
whisper on the stage can be heard in the farthest
part of the house, for as all architects know, it is
not the size of a building which strains the voice
of a speaker, but its poor acoustic construction.
There are opera chairs, the floor has an easy pitch,
and the building is so shaped that every seat com-
mands a clear view of the stage and every word
uttered on the stage, in the most conversational
tone, can be distinctly heard all over the house.
The interior effect is grey, relieved by a blue-green.
While the new Wellesley auditorium would not be
a fraction of this building in size, it is to be hoped
it will have as excellent acoustic properties as Mr.
Kahn of Detroit has secured for this building, and
relatively as many exits, and checking rooms for
wraps. The writer found much interest expressed
in Wellesley's building plans and much good-will
from a University which has sent in the past to
Wellesley, as its Faculty, so many able women.

S. C. Hart.

STUDENT-ALUMNA BUILDING FUND.

Reported in News, March 2, 1916,
From Carolyn E. Mjerritt, 1913,
From Mae Sarles, 1913,
From Sarah W. Parker, 191 3,
From Carolyn Kahn, 1913,
From Elizabeth Jackson, 1913,

$129,338.16
5.00
2.00
5.00
10.00
5.00

$129,365.16
Mary E. Holmes, '92,

Chairman.

WELLESLEY CLUBS.

The following resolution was adopted by the
Associate Alumna? of Vassar College at their an-
nual meeting held in New York on February 19:

"Whereas, the Wellesley Clubs, in sympathy with
our Million Dollar campaign, most generously
made a gift of about five hundred dollars in pledges
as a Christmas Greeting from Wellesley to Vassar,
be it

Resolved, that the Associate Alumnae of Vassar
College receive it with gratitude and sincere ap-
preciation of the effort in our behalf, and be it
further

Resolved, that this gift shall be to us a pledge of
friendship which we shall, greatly prize, as we pur-
sue the high ideals which both colleges hold in
common, be it

Resolved, also, that this Resolution be conveyed
by the Secretary to the Wellesley Clubs through
Miss E. R. Batt, and that it be spread upon our
minutes."

The sum has now substantially passed the five
hundred dollar mark. We would suggest the read-
ing of these resolutions at the next meeting of each
contributing Wellesley Club.

E. R. B.

The Kansas City Wellesley Club held its March
meeting at the home of Mrs. Sigmund Stern on
March 6. The chief business of the meeting was
Miss L. C. Barstow's most interesting report of the
Graduate Council. Miss Mary Rockwell gave a
report on plans for rebuilding, describing especially
the plan of the Student-Alumna; Building, as thus
far developed. Plans were made for the entertain-
ment of Miss Hart, who is to be in Kansas City
March 29 to 31, and will give her famous lecture
on Russia on the evening of March 30.

PLYMOUTH THEATER— GALSWORTHY'S
1 JUSTICE.

THE WEARING APPAREL
OF THE COLLEGE GIRL

Is universally noted for its inimitable girlish touch.
A trifle swaggering — a bit novel, yet not freakish —
ahead, or at least abreast of the style of the season
are prerequisites.

Our departments are tuned to this demand

Whatever is new in every day suits, sport coats or
skirts, party dresses and evening gowns, will be found
here as soon as they are marketable.

For the winter sports a complete line of accessories is
carried in our sporting goods section.

JORDAN MARSH COMPANY

the most forceful writer of plays that employs the
English language, a master at dramatic construction,
a technician who is the nearest to perfection of any of
the modern playwrights, and one whose every play
has been a thorough artistic success. But in this
his newest product he has penned a drama that is
sure to have popular appeal, for it is of a subject
most alive at the present time and applicable to
conditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Nothing
like "Justice" has been seen on the modern stage,
depicting as it does the inner workings of prisons,
customs that prevail in like institutions the world
over, but so wonderful was the impression that the
play made in England that it was directly respon-
sible for drastic remedies in the British penitentia-
ries. Besides Mr. Barrymore there are in the cast
such well-known players as O. P. Heggie, the excel-
lent Androcles of Shaw's satire, Cathleen Nesbit,
Henry Stephenson, Charles Francis, Asheton Tonge,
Wallis Clark, Thomas Louden, Walter Lonergan
and forty others.

The matinees at this theater are on Thursdays
and Saturdays, and for the convenience of out-of-
town patrons a perfect mail order system is in opera-
tion.

HOLLIS SUBURBAN.

For two weeks, commencing Monday evening,
March 27, the distinguished English actor, Mr.
Cyril Maude, and his widely popular melodramatic
comedy vehicle, "Grumpy," will be the attrac-
tion at the Hollis Street Theater. The coming en-
gagement will be the second of this appealing com-
bination of fine acting and entertaining play, in
Boston, Mr. Maude having done "Grumpy" at
another theater for fourteen weeks last season,
therefore both star and play are too well known
to require over much introduction. Suffice it to
say that in the opinion of our theatergoers, Eng-
land has never sent to this country a more accom-
plished actor than Cyril Maude, and that in a decade
our dramatic stage has not had presented upon it
a better liked play than is "Grumpy."

The forthcoming engagement will be the occa-
sion of Mr. Maude's farewell "Grumpy" perform-
ances in Boston, as when he again visits that
city, it will be in a new role.

There will be both Wednesday and Saturday
matinees.

There comes to the Plymouth Theater on Monday,
March 20, John Barrymore in the best play that the
best English playwright has written, John Galswor-
thy's "Justice." This author is now recognized as

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